scholarly journals A Qualitative Analysis of the Agricultural Policy Dynamics and the Nigerian Economy : 1960-2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (34) ◽  
pp. 284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Ohunmah Igudia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Resource Endowment ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
Policy Dynamics ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Industrialised Countries

Historically, the agricultural sector constitutes one of the most important sectors of most countries including the highly industrialised ones like the USA, Japan, and England. In Nigeria, agriculture has been the engine of growth of its economy. However, this role has not been optimally exploited by successive administrations to develop strategic growth path for Nigeria as has been achieved by the aforementioned industrialised countries and some emerging ones like China and Brazil. Nigeria has a rich agricultural resource endowment and an avalanche of laudable agricultural policies that could turn her into an industrialised economy and reduce the incidence of poverty. The last in the series of laudable agricultural policies meant to entrench Nigeria’s economic growth within the agricultural framework was the transformation agenda. The agricultural transformation agenda of the last administration (2011-2015) was intended to re-enact once again agriculture as the main driver of Nigeria’s economic growth as in the 1960s and 1970s. Earlier attempts underperformed due principally to the ineffective implementation or complete abandonment of such policies. The result has been a fall in foreign exchange earnings, low GDP level and lack of sectoral linkages. This study made several recommendations including the need for a consistent increase in government budgetary allocation to the sector so as to redress this enigma and bring back the old post-independence glory of the sector.

Diabetes in the South Asian diaspora

2011 ◽  
pp. 1803-1805
Author(s):  
Srikanth Bellary ◽  
Kamlesh Khunti ◽  
Anthony H. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Second World

Increased labour demands in Europe following the Second World War led to a migration of workers from the Indian subcontinent to many parts of Europe. A further wave of migration occurred in the 1960s and 1970s because of political turmoil in East Africa. More recently, technological progress and the need for skilled labour has resulted in migration to different parts of the world, including the USA and Canada. The term ‘South Asian’ broadly refers to people of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin, but those from Sri Lanka and Nepal are commonly also included. Although there is considerable heterogeneity between these subgroups, they share many sociocultural factors.

scholarly journals Same Origins, Different Destinies: New Migrants vs Descendants of Migrants

2021 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Claire Schiff ◽  
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Michèle Debrenne ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Behavioral Pattern ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
French Society ◽  
Educational Trajectories ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The article sheds light on certain peculiarities of immigration to France, which has become a multicultural country. The authors explain how the destinies of two categories of “immigrant” youth differ. The first are the “beurs”, children and grandchildren of migrants who arrived in France during the 1960s and 1970s, generally from the Maghreb. The second are the “blédards”, who migrated themselves from these countries during adolescence with their parents or in the framework of family reunification. After a short description of the successive waves of migration which have regularly reached France and a terminological clarification on the meaning of the words “foreigner” and “migrant”, the authors show how the trajectories of those who are French citizens, know the language and have attended the school system from the start differ from those of newcomers, although the two groups are often confused. The article presents analysis from the theoretical works devoted to the study of different waves of migration, in the USA and in other countries, then focuses on a presentation of the educational trajectories of the new arrivals and those of the descendants of migrants. Particular attention is paid to migrants’ adaptation to the labor market. Newcomers have less difficulty finding an internship than their classmates born in France. They are also more easily exploited, because they compensate their poor French language adopting a deferential attitude towards employers. When unemployed, they often find a job more easily than the descendants of migrants by relying on ethnic niches and networks of fellow citizens. The article underlines the role of the social environment in determining adaptation paths which can lead to acculturation and social mobility, to assimilation within a marginalized urban environment, or to economic integration into ethnic niches. The more hostile the environment and the less the migrants are adapted to the country’s economic and cultural codes, the more the ethnic community tends to rely on itself in order to protect its children from a form of assimilation seen as harmful. Finally, the authors present the different attitudes of young people from the two groups towards the host society. For the descendants of migrants, it is common to assimilate to groups of young people in low-income neighborhoods and to copy the behavioral pattern characteristic of the inhabitants of these neighborhoods with a high concentration of immigrant and minority populations. When they are victims of stigmatization because of their ethnic origin or their neighborhood of residence, these young people become very critical, sometimes adopting oppositional attitudes to the French society to which they belong. On the other hand, newcomers struggle to find their place, as they still feel in transit, are not necessarily sure to stay in the country which they see as a haven comparing to the difficult living conditions of their native country.

Maurice FitzGerald Scott 1924–2009

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER BLISS
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Philosophical Study ◽  
Major Work ◽  
True Purpose ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New View ◽  
The Revolution

Maurice Scott, an outstanding economics scholar associated for most of his career with Nuffield College Oxford, was involved in the revolution in economic thought of the 1960s and 1970s. His major work, A New View of Economic Growth (1989), was coolly received. Scott, who wrote an autobiography, My Life, and a philosophical study entitled Peter's Journey: A Search for the True Purpose of Life (1998), was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. Obituary by Christopher Bliss FBA.

Hate crime

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gilligan
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Crime Policy ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
State Protection

This chapter examines ‘race hate crime’ policy as an expression of the decline of the emancipatory dynamic of the anti-racism of the 1960s and 1970s. The author makes the case for treating hate crimes as an example of authoritarian multicultural anti-racism that is concerned with social control, rather than human emancipation. The chapter highlights ways in which hate crime policy treats racialised minorities as victims who need state protection. The author argues that hate crime policy is part of the broader erosion of civil liberties that has seen the rise of the prison population in the USA and the creation of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) and other forms of preventative policing in the UK.

‘Cruel to be kind?’ Professionalization, politics and the image of the abstinent psychoanalyst, c. 1940–80

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Koch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Social Character ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This article investigates the changing justifications of one of the hallmarks of orthodox psychoanalytic practice, the neutral and abstinent stance of the psychoanalyst, during the middle decades of the 20th century. To call attention to the shifting rationales behind a supposedly cold, detached style of treatment still today associated with psychoanalysis, explanations of the clinical utility of neutrality and abstinence by ‘classical’ psychoanalysts in the United States are contrasted with how intellectuals and cultural critics understood the significance of psychoanalytic abstinence. As early as the 1930s, members of the Frankfurt School discussed the cultural and social implications of psychoanalytic practices. Only in the 1960s and 1970s, however, did psychoanalytic abstinence become a topic within broader intellectual debates about American social character and the burgeoning ‘therapy culture’ in the USA. The shift from professional and epistemological concerns to cultural and political ones is indicative of the changing appreciation of psychoanalysis as a clinical discipline: for psychoanalysts as well as cultural critics, I argue, changing social mores and the professional decline of psychoanalysis infused the image of the abstinent psychoanalyst with nostalgic longing, making it a symbol of resistance against a culture seen to be in decline.

DEVELOPMENT TRENDS OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN UZBEKISTAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Lochinbek Faizullaevich Amirov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

This article is devoted to ensuring the sustainability of the agricultural sector of the economy of Uzbekistan and the organizational and economic conditions created in this area. Particular attention is paid to the priorities outlined in the Strategy for the Development of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2020-2030, and the tasks for their implementation, ensuring the achievement of forecast development parameters, the participation of international financial institutions in turning this sector into an industry. the main driver of economic growth. The aspects of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on agriculture in the world and in Uzbekistan were considered, measures taken to mitigate its consequenceswere described

Income Distribution, Consumption, and Economic Growth in Italy

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 867-900
Author(s):  
Antonella Rancan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Strong Influence ◽  
Income Redistribution ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Savings Behavior ◽  
Keynesian Economics ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The paper discusses Modigliani, Brumberg, and Ando’s life cycle hypothesis and its difficult acceptance in Italy over the 1960s and 1970s. The increasing attention to the effects of income redistribution on consumption coupled with the strong influence that post-Keynesian economics exercised on the theoretical and political debate of that time led to a widespread preference of Kaldor’s theory as over the life cycle as the best representation of Italian savings behavior.

scholarly journals More Than Just Play: University-Based, Multiple Intelligences–Inspired Toy Library

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Mary Katherine Waibel Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Professional Advice ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Play Materials

In an unpublished master’s thesis, Julia E. Moore described the history of toy libraries in the United States. According to Moore, the first known toy library appeared in Los Angeles in 1935 during the Great Depression to afford children free access to games and toys. Toy libraries became more widespread in the 1960s and 1970s as women increasingly entered the workforce, the number of preschools and daycare programs grew, and the Children’s Services Division (now ALSC) of the American Library Association supported the practice of loaning play materials. In the 1980s, lekoteks, or toy libraries that provide children with a disability access to specialized play materials and offer families professional advice about supporting their children’s development through play, were introduced to America. Today, supported by organizations such as the USA Toy Library Association (www.usatla.org), the National Lekotek Center (www.pgpedia.com/n/national-lekotek-center), and the International Toy Library Association (www.itla-toylibraries.org/home), thousands of toy libraries with widely varying missions exist worldwide.

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